Kei Ninomiya approaches rebellion from an unexpectedly gentle direction with “Petal Rebellion”, the latest collection for Noir Kei Ninomiya, replacing the conventional language of punk with flowers, pearls, bows and ruffles. The result is no less confrontational, but its defiance is expressed…
For Spring Summer 2027, Satoshi Kondo explores Ma, the Japanese concept of the space or interval between things, as a physical element of clothing. Titled “Figure of Ma”, the collection considers what happens in the space between body and fabric, allowing volume, movement and air to…
For its Spring/Summer 2027 edition, Concept Korea brought fashion and cinema together at Palais de Tokyo, presenting a joint runway by Bonbom and Asparagus alongside the Paris premiere of How to Walk, a fashion film directed by Ock-seop Yi. While the program connected…
For Spring/Summer 2027, Uma Wang approached balance not as symmetry, but as a state of controlled instability. Presented at Paris Fashion Week on October 1, the collection took its starting point from the sculptural mobiles of Alexander Calder, whose structures achieve…
There is a particular kind of disorder that only becomes possible through extreme control. Yohji Yamamoto’s Spring/Summer 2027 collection, presented in Paris on October 2, operates within that contradiction. Across 43 looks, fabric is cut, pulled apart, woven, knotted and…
Presented as part of Fashion Farm Foundation’s HKFG SS27 Presentation, Showcase and Networking during Paris Fashion Week, Tigers Trolling was among eight Hong Kong labels brought to Paris to present their latest work. While the broader program introduced a cross-section of Hong…
From Rick Owens: “This season’s collection is titled ‘Stone’, which has 3 contrasting implications for me: Elegant stoicism or The stone thrown aside during Christ’s resurrection, a metaphor for transcendent release from fulfilled dutiful sacrifice or All-too-common stone…
Graduate shows tend to reward volume, and most young designers know it, which is why it takes a particular kind of nerve to arrive with a debut about restraint. Antonína S. Jarisk’atsi presented “S.Control”, her final collection for the BA in Fashion Design Technology: Womenswear at…
With “Chapter 11: Parasite”, Hikari no Yami continues its exploration of transformation, identity and the life of the garment. For founder and creative director Jakarie Whitaker, the collection moves beyond simply giving discarded clothing new life, examining how identity is…
For Spring/Summer 2026, Aenrmous enters an imagined natural world where the boundaries between the human body and its environment begin to disappear. Titled “Whispering Tree of Eternity”, the collection is built around the story of a sacred tree whose roots connect all living…
The longer you spend around fashion, the more your relationship with your wardrobe changes. At first, you simply want to own something by the designers you admire. Then you learn the collections, recognise seasons, and distinguish the defining pieces from the merely…
For Spring/Summer 2027, Julius presents “[liminal;]”, a collection that examines the tension between an expanding sense of freedom and the increasingly rigid systems that define contemporary existence. Rather than proposing escape, the collection inhabits the uncertain…